skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the notifications, stupid!

Many phone apps have completely abused the notification system, transforming it into a slot machine of dopamine. Between this and "engagement" being metric number one in developing mobile apps, this outcome isn't surprising.

(I am militant about what gets to notify me. Most of my apps are denied notification permissions. Any apps that begin to spam me get denied as well. I also do inbox zero, so any emails I get are either dealt with in the moment or are treated as a todo for later.)

Ironically, as much as I loved smartphones and the iPhone in their prime, I'm thinking about going back to separate simple devices.

I've always been a "simple" phone user (email, reading stuff online, camera/video, no social media, no games,no YouTube). Phones and tablets are becoming even more consumption focused, and it's clear that market forces are leaving people like me in the dust. (I'm typing this on an eInk Boox Go that I rooted, debloated and firewalled; sucks for "typical phone shit" but is amazing for reading.)
It's okay to say that you mistyped or whatever, while taking a casual walk outside on websites that don't make it easy to edit posts and are not expected to be nitpicked about it. Throwing in that everyone uses them interchangeably, however, is just profoundly wrong on every level.

I wasn't nitpicking. It is a HUGE differentiation, and I pointed it out specifically because people pick up on terminology so people who might not know better will go forward and just drop in the more super duper hyperparameter, not realizing that it makes them look like they don't know what they're talking about. As I said in the other post, no one who knows anything uses them interchangeably. It is just completely wrong.
great, we are rehabilitating mccarthyism now
2 of them were a Boeing 737-800, just the Canadian not.
Windows BitLocker: Screwed without a Screwdriver [video]
I assume such events are randomly distributed. So I’m talking about your reaction, not the conduct itself.

What I find odd is the impact of this negative interaction in a parking lot. Do you think the guy wouldn’t have yelled at you had you been white? If not, what’s the real difference between “this isn’t China” and “are you blind?”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540975
On the other hand, fish being a clean-room shell implementation not beholden to the baggage of legacy systems is immune to some crazy behaviors or vulnerabilities that other shells - including zsh - are prone to: https://yossarian.net/til/post/some-surprising-code-executio...

Compatibility has also come a long way in recent releases; you should give it a try.
Yes.

This is really exactly my take, too.

The US Government has done incredibly stupid and catastrophically foolish and harmful things - being hoodwinked into Vietnam by the French, for example - but the Government is not inherently, actually evil, in any way, shape or form.

This is not the case for China.
This isn't hallucinated. It is sourced from the links in the search results, and those sources are clearly cited. It incorrectly stated that the movie is real instead of speculative and fan generated.
The cbc.ca article says that each home costs $10K but the GoFundMe page says this:

> Each unit costs around $5000 (not including sweat equity) to build, and I will ensure that every penny is spent wisely to create a safe and comfortable home for those who need it the most.

So it sounds like the cost of materials has increased or Donais puts aside $5K of funds for every house built for his own living costs. Or maybe after starting the project and getting the larger construction space they can now accurately estimate the overall cost at $10K.
I've heard so. I think my first DB train was around 2019, it was another ICE from Berlin to Munich. They've changed the train, cancelled all seat reservations as a consequence, delayed it for a few hours, I missed my connection in Munich... Maybe I'm unlucky :) E.g. I'm quite lucky with London trains (never had a cancellation/significant delay), but I've heard Cambridge residents would love to have a word with me.
You can also find specific types of jobs like:
1. AL/ML biotech jobs
2. Bioinformatics jobs
3. Software jobs (frontend/backend/fullstack)
4. Internships / part-time / full-time jobs

Lemme know if there are any other categories that would be interesting.

Somehow, airtable doesn't show all the views/filters on mobile, so try this out on desktop!
> I don't think staring at a bus stop is a meaningful step towards changing the American nightmare.

That is not even close to what I was speaking to. It is just part of the process of waking up and becoming unattached and less dependent and more aware of your surroundings and feeling the suffering so you create the will to change things.

> Instead we bicker about DEI and what genitals someone has under their clothes when they use certain restrooms instead of, you know, a voting and election process that is more representative and accountable.

All of this was brought to you by the internet by the people you complain about below.

> Until there is greater class consciousness and people have more emotional bandwidth to consider things outside what is immediately placed in front of them with instagram/tiktok/corporate news/advertising, I don't think it's going to change much.

Class consciousness starts off line, by helping the poor in your local area. Take a look at what the Black Panthers did and you will get an idea. If people are staring at TikTok it is highly unlikely that are running into this information.

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/how-the-black-panthers-p...

Though commonly associated with the sensational, the Black Panthers conceived of and implemented a wide array of meaningful social programs. The Panthers started free breakfast for school children, with party members cooking every morning for the poor and undernourished kids in their communities. They established the Oakland Community School, which offered adult education and childcare, as well as free medical clinics staffed by well-regarded academic physicians who volunteered a portion of their time. Mary Bassett, former commissioner of health of the city of New York, writes that the Panthers initiated medical research into sickle cell anemia, which was largely ignored prior to their work. They provided plumbing, home maintenance, and even pest control services.
As a non-Chinese and a non-American, I care less about the usual geopolitical games, including spying, and more about how the Chinese government treats its own citizens. No freedom of speech or conscience, no political freedoms: just work and be an obedient small truckle in the mechanism of the Leviathan. Plus the return of the Cult of Personality, which once even the CCP tried to abandon, but ultimately failed. These are not results of American meddling, these are their own internal choices.

I don't buy the explanation that being unfree is somehow intrinsic to East Asian cultures. We have had plenty of authoritarian regimes in Europe, too, and several hundred years ago few people could call themselves personally free.

I don't want this model of governance to spread around the globe again. It has been tried before, with disastrous results. Unless we abandon the concept of universal morality completely, treating your own people as disposable serfs is wrong.
Huh? Is this a 'love it or leave it' comment? I genuinely don't understand what you're meaning to say here.
> then proceeding using the shared key with even the best of schemes

Unlike with your "spy" scenario, this situation is in fact what TLS 1.3 builds initially and it's not useless at all, nor is the resulting link unauthenticated.

1. First Alice sends her fresh parameters to Bob

2a. Then Bob sends his fresh parameters to Alice

2b. Alice and Bob now have all the DH parameters and they now have a shared secret X

2c. Bob calculates a Digest of a transcript of the entire conversation so far and sends this Digest, encrypted with X to Alice, he can send this alongside the parameters if he wants

3. Alice also likewise calculates a Digest and sends the encrypted digest to Bob

Both Alice and Bob now have a shared secret and have an authenticated (because they've seen the other party's view of the conversation in the digest and confirmed it matches their expectation) communication channel which they can use. They don't learn each others' identity but, of course, it is easy to additionally offer this as part of the same protocol and HTTPS does so in one direction in the typical case.

Edited: Renumbered to clarify that only three messages are sent, parts 2a, 2b and 2c are actually a single message from Bob to Alice
Computer are inexpensive enough to own both on- & off-line hardware.

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Even privacy-focused hardware manufacturers will allow undisclosed usage tracking (in order to continue existing, themselves). In my example, the OEM delivers a physical product which allows users to make tangible objects, at home. Every time you launch the hardware's control software (to make more controversial objects), it phones home.
Exact same experience at Google in 2015. I remember being super weirded out that seemingly everyone was buried in phones and laptops while walking around the campus. Hated it.
I'm not being snarky, but I did not gather from his efforts that he was trying to solve homelessness. This is a case of someone perceiving a need and attempting to address it in a non-profit way within his skill-set.
"All it takes is for 50% of the internet users to stop visiting web sites with them..."

You've written that like it's a plausible and likely scenario.
>> vulnerable to being slowly pwned and then shut down all at once in a catastrophic event

A few years ago everyone thought that would happen to Ukraine, that Russian hackers would shut down everything from water delivery to weapon systems. The hackers almost certainly tried, yet the lights remained on. Imho we overestimate the power of "nation-state hackers" and underestimate the resilience of our systems.
In this case, it was specifically openwrt on mipsel.
It sounds like Apple Photos "phones home" by fetching some indices? It doesn't sound like photo data leave the device, but I think Apple's issue is they should have been more clear about how this feature worked and what data is and isn't transmitted.

If it works how I think it works, I actually don't see an issue here. I don't think anyone here expects there phone to not "phone home" to check for OS updates by default?
Apologies for misunderstanding you, then. Agreed that human to human is critical, especially for identifying culture fit (not homogeneity of course, just interaction styles like openness, etc).

I do think people cheat video interviews with LLM help, but in-person should always be required anyway, even if it’s via proxy (“meet with a colleague from our Madrid office”).
I knew about electric grinders (battery powered), but I am now curious about electric shakers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dolan
Why doesn't the US gov investigate and prosecute all the people on Epstein's video tapes found in his New York mansion? When you give me the answer to that you will have the answer to your question. You are asking the right questions Obi One.
International Obfuscated C Code Contest relaunches, celebrating 40th anniversary
My brother/sister in Christ, its time for you to embrace TikTok. You'll never be bored again! /s
All points make a lot of sense, thank you for your reply!
good luck trying to find a simple device - it is not possible anymore. and with the proliferation of eSIMs it is now hard to go buy a dumb-phone on eBay and get it “connected” to some carrier. I tried to resurrect my old RAZR and had a helluva time trying to get it working. your best bet is a smartphone with everything removed from it except messages and phone apps and the shutting everything off except cellular
Section 3.6 specifically says that you need a cookie consent notice if you save preferred language for more than one session (a few hours).
OK, send them my way.
How is the environment, which is directly of concern to the primary economic sector, and to the entire economic enterprise in the long run, an externality?
Also, by the time you find that button to turn it off, Apple already has the info it wanted...
In the UK Chinese funded international masters/phd students have to send back to China reports about their fellow students as a condition of their funding.

There's no mandatory spying expected if the position is funded privately or by the host institution.

I expect that the spying is just limited to their fellow state funded students although I have heard of significant tension between mainland and Hong Kong students about this. I don't know if Hong Kong students have to spy.
But if you won’t be the big tabacco exec, someone else will.

So I actually agree with the notion that being the big tabacco exec and doing good things with your money, plus helping steer things from the inside is a better proposition than becoming a baker and letting someone who has NO moral qualms with tabacco run the ship.

It’s rarely as effective to push change from the outside as it is the inside.
Don't know about the linked site and its reputation. Found it myself quite clickbaity with the spying equipment twist. Here is more in-depth timeline kind of article from Estonia [1] and would recommend that instead.

I guess this is just local news in the world scale amidst current global events and you must find local source for any quality. Surely it has been covered a lot here in Finland nationally because of rather new kind of hybrid warfare escalation - response event.

[1] https://www-err-ee.translate.goog/1609561714/soome-hoidis-ar...
WAP has risen from the dead in a fury just to enter the chat...
This build is 3kVA max. That’s about 1/3 of a current gen EV, only 15% of an original Tesla Model S with dual chargers, and about equal to a standard American oven. This is much more polite to the grid than, say, a couple of tea kettles or especially a reasonably sized electric tankless water heater.
Actually yes, Toronto's temperatures hit -20C with a lot of snowfall, this guy is giving people in need a chance.

Not your effort, not your money, not your time. What is your problem with this, exactly? That you didn't get a fee out of it?
That keeps being discussed and filling pockets from politicians and their close friends.

We could already have good connections with Alpha Pendular trains, it would be a matter to extend and improve existing infrastructure, not build a new one from scratch.

Same goes for the never ending story of the new Lisbon airport, it will make very happy everyone involved into its construction.
Gnome supports this too, and I think lots of other Linux window managers as well.

I miss it on Windows.
“If I don’t work with the Nazis, someone else will, so I should be a good Nazi”
you can also try a decent number at best buy and maybe other specialty retailers but:

with the gaming oriented brands you often have to turn down RGB effects to make them tolerable, certain brands have switches that actuate high in the range of motion and it's often not easy to tell if the switches are soldered or have swappable sockets

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also the latest/greatest in split ergos seem to be the svalboards, ordered a 1 finger cluster to try but have no info about them yet
Morality is completely subjective. Prior to certain events in the last year I would’ve said that there were some objective standards like minimizing harm to children, but that’s out the window now, with most of Big Tech implicated.

As a moderately less contentious example, Alex Karp argues fervently that it is immoral to not produce weapons of war for western countries and the U.S. in particular. Many people agree with him. Ultimately people justify their method of making a living in whichever way they choose, and tech workers are no different. History is the log of the winners and losers of the war between the adherents of different moral codes.
>It's dangerously close to the EA belief that it's actually OK to be a ruthless exec for a tobacco company, because you can do good things with your money that you wouldn't be able to do if you quit the job.

You're saying this as if it's a given, but why wouldn't this work?
Big Tech subverted the world’s longest running democracy and tipped a majority of the global population into authoritarian rule. An essay handwringing the question doesn’t seem very useful at this point.
going from 0 to profitable doesn't require that much marketing. people do discuss good products and recommend them for pain points independent of being bombarded with ads for them. you can talk about your product to people who need it.

going from profitable to "we own gigantic yachts that supply our humongous yachts" aka jeff bezos money requires absurdly crafted insidious borderline evil marketing.
Think of how many Indian spies exist in the US... Is it OK just because there is no anti India narrative in the US?
Couldn't disagree more about Elon. I'm just glad there was someone able to open up free speech again on a social media platform and reveal for all to see the level of censorship (by surrogacy) by the govt.I think we might be in a very dark place indeed if this level of govt corruption was allowed to persist for even a few more years.
Wikidata Beacon
I love how projects like this can give folks a chance to understand and derive computer mechanics from scratch, in a visual way. I feel like living in the land of bits and high level constructs for too long really creates black boxes and fear that it’s too complicated to ever understand the metal. Projects like that dismistify things in clean 2d space. Props, and great write up!
Oh wow yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaYMoTi2g8
What do you do when a real person says they'd be happy to meet your fake employee?
Viewers of Quantum Events Are Also Subject to Uncertainty
Indeed, I cringe at the insane decisions that an AI CEO might make after being sent multi-megabyte emails of mesmerizing nonsense by a bad actor.
https://archive.ph/foiHM
Page 8 of the PDF[1]: 3.6 UI customization cookies

> These customization functionalities are thus explicitly enabled by the user of an information society service (e.g. by clicking on button or ticking a box) although in the absence of additional information the intention of the user could not be interpreted as a preference to remember that choice for longer than a browser session (or no more than a few additional hours). As such only session (or short term) cookies storing such information are exempted under CRITERION B.

It specifically says that a consent notice is required for UI customization cookies that persist more than a few hours, and it gives an example of preferred language as one of those UI customizations.

1. https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
I used to work with a few Israeli software engineers who did this openly and told me all about it.
Recs on specific agencies?
Also, do consider xonsh.[1]

It's a Bash-like shell written in Python. It has significant overlap with the awesomeness of fish, and has the advantage of being able to write your shell scripts in a Python dialect. So if you know Python, the mental burden is much lower.

On top of that, it's cross platform, since Python is. No WSL needed.

I switched to it in 2018 and haven't looked back. Originally it was just because I wanted a better command prompt environment in Windows for work, but I liked it so much I switched to it in Linux as well.

(And yes, you can type any Python statement right in the command prompt).

[1] https://xon.sh/
India is nowhere near being a superpower that could challenge the US so I think the threat is not the same. Plus Indian society is a bit more open and free than Chinese so lots of people told to spy can easily come out.
Good to see single page projects, can you try hosting it somewhere like GitHub pages?
How is that unethical? X is Musk's toy to do with as he pleases. You as a user of X need to understand that he has absolutely no responsibility to you as a user.
Yes, this is what I'm saying.

Particularly among "controversial" product manufacturers.

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Entirely unrelated: I recently visited my favorite hometown (Austin) museum, UT's Harry Ransom Center. Their P.E.N. exhibit has an exposé on how various mid-20th Century authors were in fact funded by The Ford Foundation (a known CIA "investment vehicle"), including Aldous Huxley (author of Brave New World). One of the exhibits features multiple author signatories adamently denying this CIA-funding, over the 1950's decade... ultimately this conspiracy theory ended up being true/revealed. Adds an entirely new dimension to The Savage's [BNW's main character] decision to hang himself.
The 8000-Er Mess (2020)
It is the very first point because I didn’t feel like debugging the whole article in a hn comment.

The rest of the article is criticizable too, the recurrent issue being that it is making non-technical recommendations into technical guideline items.
> The duty to align your professional life ethically scales with your ability to do so.

I think this implies that we all should aim to have for everybody those abilities. That is, if somebody is unable, in this sense, to be ethical because he's just trying to get by, it's actually our problem - e.g. he sells cigarettes and that harms us. So we need to some extent work on the goal of everybody having abilities to live ethically.
I disagree with this being presented as if it was special. It’s standard operating procedure for intelligence agencies worldwide.
> That's not what technical debt means

Undoubtedly, I'm not sure why technical debt is in the title

> this is vapid clickbait

This seems unfair. It is a well written discussion of the difference between kqueue on BSDs and epoll on linux, and a historical overview of predecessor APIs. It just has nothing to do with technical debt, which, given the title, is admittedly odd
This excessive inter-AZ data transfer pricing is distorting engineering best practices. It _should_ be cheap to operate HA systems across 2-3 AZs, but because of this price distortion on inter-AZ traffic charges, we lean towards designs that either silo data within an AZ, or that leverage S3 or other hosted solutions as a sort of accounting workaround (i.e. there are no data transfer charges to read/write an S3 bucket from any AZ in the same region).

While AWS egress pricing gets a lot of attention, I think that the high cost of inter-AZ traffic is much less defensible. This is transfer on short fat pipes completely owned by Amazon. And at $0.01/GB, that's 2~10X what smaller providers charge for _internet_ egress.
Most Apple Photos users keep their actual photos on Apple's computers. There are few people who should react to this.

Sadly, I'm one of them.
Analog pushbuttons tend not to have much success. The original Street Fighter for instance could select between light/medium/heavy attacks based on how hard you pushed buttons. It didn't last long before they got back to the familiar 6 button layout with simple switches.

The Playstation 2 had analog pushbuttons, essentially no one used them. Even analog triggers are mostly used as simple switches. Apple discontinued force touch too.

There is an advantage to Hall effect sensors for gaming keyboards though. It is that they don't have a set actuation point and it allows for a feature called "rapid trigger", greatly improving reactivity and tapping speed. It is particularly important for games like OSU!
> But if you're one or two levels up Maslow's Pyramid, it's right to weigh your personal needs against the impact of your work. You'll also be better off for it, knowing that <b>the world would be worse off if you decided to switch gears</b> and become a carpenter/baker/bartender/choose your adventure.

To highlight this part of the original in support of this comment. This comes of as somewhat arrogant and is a pretty big red flag...
Follow up with, "Please check again"